tectec's comments

tectec | 2 months ago | on: I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me

Did you read the article?

tectec | 2 months ago | on: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

What's the quote?

tectec | 1 year ago | on: Interview with gwern

Can you link the comment here?

tectec | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot

The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Do It Yourself Blind Repair

Does it use two sets of lift tape? https://fixmyblinds.com/collections/cellular-honeycomb-pleat...

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Seven Years of Factorio Friday Facts (2020)

They took a long break from them after 1.1, the first version was finished. They started again recently in preparation for the 2.0 release, which will hopefully be sometime next year.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Personalized Meal Plans to Suit Your Lifestyle

I can’t see prices without filling in my email? And there are so many recipes out there for free, why would I pay for more?

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?

He's from the house of Windsor so wouldn't he use that as his last name where it's needed?

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Lacros on Chromebooks transition plan won’t be quick

Do you think there are many sales lost of chromebooks because there is lockin? I think most people care way less about that then you would hope.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: LEGO Building Instructions

Brinklink has list for each brick of the set it belongs too. I was able to use that to discover a set I didn't know my older brothers had.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Magit

I mainly use magit for reviewing changes, staging and committing. I haven’t found an interface that compares for staging and discarding hunks. But checking out branches I do on the command line and I use Meld for resolving conflicts.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Office real estate crash will be so sharp, values unlikely to recover by 2040

It’s not so easy to convert offices to living areas, although I think it’s been done in a few places

tectec | 2 years ago | on: ELO Everything

I think you'd get a lot of cycles in this, so the rating won't be very stable.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

You'd think that reddit would be smart enough to show web crawlers a cleaner version than real users, or is that not allowed? Maybe google needs whitelist some of the biggest sites on the web so they can feed searchable data into google in a more efficient way.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor (2019) [pdf]

What kind of orbit would that be? In order for it to be that close so rarely it must spend most of its time even further from earth.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Langton’s ant

Wow, that brings me back. My older brother wrote a Langton's ant program in QBasic, and one of my earliest computer memories was watching that thing go.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: My product is my garden (2020)

Gardening doesn’t have to be that intense. I grow a reasonably productive 12x20 garden, just by guessing. And I’m not a natural.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Open source smartwatch integrates ESP32 MCU with e-paper display

I'd love a watch like this, but none of them seem to work with iOS. I don't know if sideloading iOS apps would help with that. Apple seems to keep the messaging and notification API's pretty locked down.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave

If it’s anything like the Mars 1000 trip by Reid Stowe then the science thing might be more for publicity than for actual usable science.

tectec | 2 years ago | on: “In 2050, everyone will be carbon literate”

That’s not true, most beef comes from beef cows, which are slaughtered around 2 years. Milk cows are much different breeds and the females are kept around for up to 10 years. They might be eaten after that, but they don’t produce nice steaks.